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ITA. There is plenty of affordable housing in parts of DC that yuppies don't want to live in.  [/quote]

And if yuppies go there (some already are, of course - yes, EOTR) that will push out the current low income residents.   More gentrification is not the answer to making housing more affordable.   [/quote]

What is your suggestion for lower income residents?  Are you saying we should build public housing in large quantity, which would [b]naturally[/b] be concentrated in lower cost parts? Do you suggest we should give incentive to market rate landlords or developers to build at a loss/rent at a loss or somehow motivate them to be more self-sacrificing?  NYC had not solved this problem despite insane rate of new construction and incredible density and zoning laws.  The poor also get pushed out into more distant or more unsafe parts due to gentrification there.

The only way to make housing more affordable is to make someone pay for it, simple as that. Who will pay for it? Solve this problem and get back to us.  [/quote]

"Naturally"?

If government-sponsored housing is concentrated in lower-cost parts, it's because the government made a deliberate decision for that to happen.[/quote]

Land costs less in cheaper parts.  To build cheap housing you need cheap land, what's unnatural about this?[/quote]

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